Renewable Energy Systems

The goal of the Research Program on Renewable Energy Systems is to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, hence minimise greenhouse gas emissions, by increasing the share of renewables in our energy mix.

The Program, led by Professor Behdad Moghtaderi, in particular focuses on the development of novel systems / processes
for more efficient and viable utilisation of renewable energy sources such as biomass, wind and geothermal.

The research underpinning the Program covers fundamental and applied aspects of renewable energy systems, these include, but are not limited to; biomass combustion, gasification and pyrolysis, design
of novel wind turbines as well as, geothermal power cycles and hot dry rock technology for geothermal power generation.

Laboratories

The main laboratory of this program - the Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Laboratory has been dedicated to two large programs of study aimed at the development of more efficient technologies for utilisation of biomass and geothermal resources, respectively. Several projects are currently under way as part
of these two programs of study.

These are:

Development of a Novel Geothermal Power Cycle

Development of a Novel Regenerator for Adapting Supercritical Cycles to Geothermal